- Mark is an award-winning author, screenwriter, director, playwright and journalist. His documentary, The Hundred Year Old Whale won the 2017 WGC Award for Best Documentary. His debut feature, The Green Chain, which he wrote and directed, was a finalist for a Writers Guild of Canada Award. Mark won the prestigious Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his debut book, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, which he's developing as a TV series. He's in post-production on a documentary based on his bestselling non-fiction book, The Killer Whale Who Changed the World. TV credits include developing Tales from the Crypt as a live action series for young audiences for Cookie Jar Entertainment and Teletoon; developing Marvel Comic's Moon Knight as a live action hour long drama series for No Equal Entertainment; developing the animated series Hood for Disney and Teletoon; and creating The O-Zone (Soapbox Productions/Global TV). He story edited season one of the Lifetime/City TV series, Blood Ties, and has written for such shows as The Collector, Psi Factor and the new reboot of ReBoot (Reboot:The Guardian Code) for Netflix.His TV writing credits include Reboot: The Guardian Code (Netflix), Blood Ties (Lifetime) and The Collector (CityTV). His stage plays have been produced throughout Canada, the US, Europe and Australia. His play, Shylock just finished a three year run at Prague's Divadlo Na Jezerce. His latest play, Bar Mitzvah Boy, has been produced throughout Canada and the US and is published by Playwrights Canada Press. He was editor of Reel West and covered the Canadian entertainment scene for The Hollywood Reporter, The Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Straight and publications around the world.- IMDb Mini Biography By: yorick2009
- Mark is half of the Canadian comedy duo, Local Anxiety. They starred in their own hour-long TV special (Greenpieces), played most of Canada's major comedy festivals and their songs have been heard on NPR, CBC and Dr. Demento. Their CDs are available on iTunes.
- He wrote the first Canadian adventure for Kolchak: The Night Stalker for the Stoker award-nominated horror fiction anthology: "The Night Stalker Chronicles." In Mark's story, Kolchak visits Churchill, Manitoba to face the Wendigo. Mark previously wrote about the Wendigo in an episode of Psi Factor.
- Winner 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Never Shoot a Stampede Queen.
- Mark has not worked with Kevin Bacon, but he has interviewed him at the Toronto International Film Festival. No clue how that effects his Bacon #.
- [as a teenager getting into the job market] I worked in the malls at Christmas, but I wasn't allowed to be an elf because I was too tall. Santa was out of the question because I was too thin, so I was always stuck in the reindeer costume. But I actually loved it because the reindeer wasn't allowed to talk, it just had to be cute.
- There's no logical explanation for it, but people love to beat up chickens. I have one word of advice for aspiring costumed entertainers: Don't dress up as poultry.
- I thought writing was about showing off your vocabulary. The stories I wrote in Grade 8 had more syllables in each word than the entire paragraph. 'Cat's Cradle' was responsible for me becoming a writer. Iy was also responsible for me losing my A in Grade 10 English because my teacher declared all my post-Vonnegut writing 'too creative'.
- [on what encouraged him to read] When I was in high school, I had a crush that ruled my world. I scheduled my life so I'd have a chance at bumping into the girl of my dreams. I took advanced-credit summer school courses in subjects I barely understood because she was a grade ahead of me. And when I saw her reading a thin paperback with a shiny red cover, I had to ask her what it was. She told me about 'Ice-Nine' and the end of the world, before finishing with, 'It's funny. You'll like it'. Then she walked off to meet her Neanderthal date du jour. I only got the book out of the library so I could it discuss it with her. I devoured it in one night. The next day I went to the school library and took out every Kurt Vonnegut book they had.
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